to keep insisting that all decisions are interim, and that decisions 
     
     must be made. At worst, put the blame on me. At best, ask for help 
     
     and suggestions!"“ Baker took his own advice, sending oil a ques~ 
     
     tionnaire to all faculty that blay, asking their opinion on what the 
     
     university's academic structure should be. Should we have a tradi— 
     
     tional lecture system or a lecture/seminar one? Demand many re— 
     
     quirements or allow many choices? Have full-year courses or a se- 
     
     mester system? Withjust four months before the new university was 
     
     to begin classes, the university still seemed up for grabs. 
     
    

    
     The new president was helped immeasurably by his secretary, 
     
     Connie Cullen, a very capable young St. Dunstan's student who had 
     
     been hired for him and whom he had not yet met. They soon main— 
     
     tained at daily correspondence, she telling him everything going on 
     
     in his absence, he dictating policy decisions and to-do lists as they 
     
     occurred to him. For a time that spring, it was as it Cullen was 
     
     UPEI’S first woman president. Baker instructed her at one point to 
     
     meet with all the Science chairs, and draw up a short list of people 
     
     whom she would consider suitable for dean.“ 
     
    

    
     bleanwhile, Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's Univer— 
     
     sity were wrapping up their unsettled final year. The cover of Rm’ 
     
     (1111/ W/Jifu'x final issue eulogized St. Dunstan‘s: “Died 1969 — Vi— 
     
     tal Organs Preserved."H Cullen was pleased to report to Baker that 
     
     the SDU convocation went oil without “excess of sentimentality 
     
     or nostalgia.“ dliings did not go so smoothly at Prince of Wales, 
     
    
   
   
    
     where what Mar/612123 called “the shortest—lived university ever" was 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     43 Baker to l lennessey, ;\pri1 1:. root), lbid. 
     
    

    
     4; Baker to Cullen, .\lay 5, moo, "111’1".1 Origins 7 Baker papers" vertical file, {older 
     
     2, item (7:, 1’1‘11 Collection. 
     
    

    
     44 Riv/imi/ 117.7171; ;\pril 11, mm). 
     
    

    
     4; Cullen to Baker, May 11. 11201). “111’1‘11 Origins A Baker papers" vertical tile, 
     
     lolder 2, item (m, l’lil Collection. (iraduates at both $1)[1 and l’\\’C had been 
     
     asked itithey \vished their degrees conl'erred by and in the nan1eot‘111)l".l; neither 
     
     class chose to. See University and (.‘t1lleges Planning Committees ;“ joint report, 
     
     October 21;, mos, “UPl‘il Origins ~— 1111iversity and College Planning Committees" 
     
     vertical 111e,lbldei‘j,iteii1if, l’l‘ll Collection. 
     
    
   
   
    
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